Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley